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Reform Under Taft & WilsonThe Fattest President 6 Foot, 350 Pounds
Once got stuck in a Whitehouse bathtub
1st President to own a car andconverted the Whitehouse stables into a 4 car garage
Liked milk so much that he brought a cow to the Whitehouse
Taft Takes Office
1908 ElectionRepublican- William Taft
Democrat- Williams Bryan
Roosevelt backed Taft because he believed Taft had the same reform ideas
Because Roosevelt backed Taft, Taft wins
Taft Angers the Progressives
Despite major reforms Taft lost the support Progressive Republicans
Tariff Bill, Conservation
Roosevelt, “I don’t think that under the Taft regime there has been a real appreciation of the needs of the
country.”
Roosevelt and the elections of 1910
Republican party was split between Roosevelt’s progressive republicans and Taft’s conservative republicans
As a result of this division, the republicans lost control of Congress to the Democrats
Roosevelt returns to politics
Disturbed by what Taft was doing to the republican party, Roosevelt decided to run again for presidency in 1912
Roosevelt ran under the Progressive Party also called the Bull Moose Party
Roosevelt said he felt fit as a Bull Moose to run again
• Teddy Roosevelt, who was president from 1901-1909, was shot by John Schrank while campaigned as the candidate of the new Progressive party on Oct. 14, 1912. His 50-page speech and glasses case slowed the bullet enough so that it entered his body, but did not penetrate the heart. Rather than go to the hospital, Roosevelt went on with the show. "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose," Roosevelt said. "The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best."
• He spoke for 90 minutes.
• Later, doctors decided it would be too dangerous to remove the bullet -- so the former president carried it in his body for the rest of his life. The bullet is the shadowy shape on the lower left of this image.
1912 Election
Republicans- President Taft
Progressives (Former Rep.)- Roosevelt
Democrats- Woodrow Wilson
ResultsWilson 435 electoral votes 42%Roosevelt 88 electoral votes 27%Taft 8 electoral votes 23%
Do you think that The U.S. should have a viable 3rd party? What are the
positives and negatives to a 2 party vs. 3 party system?
A Democratic Victory
Wilson’s campaign slogan , New Freedom, promised to help out small businesses “A return to an America where people were free of big business and gov.”
Tariff reduction, banking reform, anti-trust legislation
Clayton Antitrust Act, FTC, Federal Reserve.
• Clayton Antitrust Act—Clarified and extended the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• FTC—Federal Trade Commission—Enforced antitrust laws.Federal Reserve Act—Banking collapsed was common so Wilson created a national banking system that could borrow money to prevent collapse during financial panic.
19th Amendment
Ratified in 1920
Gave women full voting rights
Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote.
End of Progressivism
World War I (1914) brought an end to the progressive era
Reformers were more interested in the war and less devoted to reform movements